This part of the glacier is hidden behind ice-walls but crossing that wall totally worth it. Matanuska is a 4 miles wide glacier, flowing just about a foot per day.
Last summer, we had an awesome week in Alaska. Backpacking around Denali Park and ice-climbing these glaciers was an epic experience. Our secret plan of 'fire-and-ice' could not happen though.
That shirtless guy is actually my friend Emil before jumping into the icy-water !! and of course the last part of the previous sentence is a lie.
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Nepal - Barun Valley

Barun Valley (Sankhuwasabha, Nepal) provides stunning contrasts, where high waterfalls cascade into deep gorges, craggy rocks rise from lush green forests, and colorful flowers bloom beneath white snow peaks. This unique landscape shelters some of the last pristine mountain ecosystems on earth. Rare species of animals and plants flourish in diverse climates and habitats, relatively undisturbed by human kind.
In some of the ancient Buddhist scriptures, Seven Shangri-la ( Nghe-Beyul Khimpalung) are described as mystical and spectacularly beautiful evergreen places where no one gets old. It is written that in case of a cataclysm, life will remain only in these seven areas of the world. In those books one of the Shangri-La is mentioned to be situated somewhere at this Makalu-Barun region.
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Top of the Rock - Rockefeller Center (New York)

Night view of Manhattan from the Top of the rock, Rockefeller Center Observatory. This 70-story, 850-foot GE Building was formerly known as the RCA Building and was also known as “30 Rock". The building houses NBC’s New York studios, including the Saturday Night Live and The Today Show.
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Mono Lake Sunrise

"It lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert," Mark Twain wrote in his 1872 travelogue, Roughing It. "This solemn, silent, sailless sea--this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth--is little graced with the picturesque."
Once water enters this lake, which is actually a volcanic basin, there is no way out other than evaporation. According to scientists, for at least 760,000 years Mono Lake has been helping to develop recently discovered new form of life that lives in arsenic.
It was a freezing cold morning but the sunrise was majestic. An awesome snowboarding runs were to follow the day :)
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Nepal - Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple)

Swayambhunath (स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप), one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites, is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. [wiki]
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Journey

Imagine, how many miles this horse has already traveled -- silently ...
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June Under the Moon - June Lake, California

After a long day of snowboarding in the June Mt., this is how I got to relax, looking back towards the slope across the June lake.
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Nepal - Sarangkot Sunrise, Pokhara

Sarangkot (or Sarnkot), Pokhara, Nepal. 2012
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Yosemite Classic

The classic view of the El Capitan and the Merced river in the Yosemite National Park.
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Aama Bhujung (Pregnant Mother), Barun Valley, Nepal

This mountain couple is located in the Makalu Barun National Park, few kilometers north from the Nghe Kharka, a himalayan Shangri-la.
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